Some parties are unforgettable. Others are uncontrollable. The infamous “Brampton Project X” party was both.
In a new video, Canadian storyteller Six Tales dives headfirst into the chaos that erupted one night in Brampton when a house party, hosted by 11th-grader Canice Ejoh, spiralled into legend. Dubbed Brampton’s answer to Project X, the 2012 teen movie where a house party descends into bedlam, this wasn’t just a suburban get-together. It was a social media-fuelled firestorm that ended with $70,000 in damages and made international headlines.
Originally a modest Facebook invite, the event gained momentum after a selfie of Ejoh inside his family’s unfinished mansion began circulating on Twitter. What followed was pure digital wildfire. Teenagers showed up from all corners of Ontario: Oshawa, Hamilton, even farther. Over 1,000 people (or closer to 2000 according to the Toronto Star) descended on the quiet Stanley Carberry Drive home, overrunning it like a scene out of a disaster movie.
Inside, windows shattered, walls cracked, and furniture splintered. Police dispatched over 60 units to contain the madness. Outside, chaos reigned. And while the guests raged, Ejoh scrambled to keep people safe, even pulling down a ladder to stop others from climbing to a second-story balcony.
“I was running everywhere, screaming at people not to go through there,” he later told Global News.
Canice’s mother, Julie, was at church when it all went down. “I collapsed actually. I dropped on the floor; my legs could not hold me,” she recalled. The congregation rushed her to a prayer room, unaware that her home had become the epicentre of a teen riot. Somehow, no one was seriously injured, a miracle she attributes to divine intervention.
The house at the center of the chaos was listed for sale just a few months ago with an asking price of $5.5 million. The listing is still up on Home.ca, but a listing for the same property was removed from Realtor.ca.
Now, nearly a decade later, Canice Ejoh has traded viral mayhem for baseball cleats, recently signing as an outfielder with the Ottawa Titans of the Frontier League. But thanks to Six Tales’ new retrospective, the night Brampton lost control is going viral all over again.
